WANC is apublic radio station officially licensed toTiconderoga, New York, and owned by WAMC, Inc. The station broadcasts at 103.9 MHz at 1,550 wattseffective radiated power, and is a repeater ofWAMC-FM serving the southernChamplain Valley.

WANC originally signed on September 6,1982,^[2] as WXTY with aTop 40 radio format; it was a sister station toWIPS. However, the station was only arimshot into major nearby cities. It was never significant in eitherBurlington, Vermont, orPlattsburgh, New York, due to the presence of several other top 40 stations at the time, includingWGFB "B100",WQCR "Q99" and upstartWXXX "95 Triple X".

In August 1990,Alan Chartock purchased WXTY from the then-owners of WIPS for $400,000. It became a repeater ofWAMC-FM under the WANC calls for the southern Champlain Valley andGlens Falls/Lake George area. Despite it being a repeater station for WAMC, it is one a very small handful of noncommercial radio stations whose frequency is outside the standard frequency range for noncommercial FM radio stations (88-92mHz) in the United States.^[3]

• WAMC-FM

• Facility details for Facility ID 70842 (WANC) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• WANC inNielsen Audio's FM station database

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